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... hope), ... for ... do ... Well hm..it certainly burns good...but nah...one doesn t burn books *shudder* Donate it to the local library or give it to some

Message 1 of 80
, Aug 1 2:02 AM

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> amazon was very apologetic....is resending the correct book (or so i

hope),

> but it was not in stock and took 3 days for them to ship it....and now i
> begin to wait again....oh yeah, they told me to keep the james bond book

for

> my trouble (cost is prohibitive to send it back)....now what am i going to

do

> with a james bond book....
>
> shadow
>

Well hm..it certainly burns good...but nah...one doesn't burn books
*shudder*
Donate it to the local library or give it to some friend pretending it was
THE
book...maybe you could use it as a doorstopper as well. Hmm nah those
"novels"
usually are not very long.

Nörml
sharing some dumb ideas ;-)

whetner

What I meant was that I personally have a problem with giving certain books to my siblings. Not that I d stop them from reading them, but that I think they

Message 80 of 80
, Apr 2, 2002

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What I meant was that I personally have a problem with giving certain
books to my siblings. Not that I'd stop them from reading them, but
that I think they should be older before they read it. Something like
Eddings has little or no sex in it, and I've even given the first
book to my brother (he thinks it's boring though!). But something
like Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series has quite a
bit of sex and violence in them, and I just don't feel comfortable
giving books like that to my 13 year old brother or my 10 year old
sister. Even if I did read that book when I was 11.

-Sherene

--- In Flewelling@y..., "rachelkate2999" <rashulman@e...> wrote:
> --- In Flewelling@y..., "whetner" <whetner@y...> wrote:
> > But don't you think it's one thing to find it on your own and a
> whole
> > other thing to recommend or give books with "older" subjects to a
> kid?
> >
>
> I don't really think it makes muchof a difference. My aunt gave me
> the David Eddings books (The Belgariad and Mallorean series), while
I
> discovered other things in my own wanderings in the library. In my
> memory, I don't have distinct feelings about books based on whether
> they came reccommended or not. I suspect that what you're getting
at
> is something along the lines of "If we hand out condoms in schools,
> then it looks as though we're condoning teen sex." In other words,
if
> a book comes reccommended by a librarian or other adult (who
> obviously has some power), then it carries more "weight" in the
mind
> of the reader. Something I've been struggling with of late is
> judgementalism (if that is, indeed, a word). By simple virtue of
the
> fact of having opinions, we are judgemental, and pass those
> judgemental feelings along to others, and one can't help but have
> opinions about books...I'm just not sure how much we should let our
> own issues with sex, or violence, or anything else, influence what
we
> encourage, or passively allow, children to read.
>
> I'm afrad I'm still recovering from a rather sleepless week, and I
> apologize for being less than coherent.
>
> Rachel Kate

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